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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Strange bedfellows

In which I try to get Salman Rushdie and Bernard Manning into the same article and find myself sticking up for another bloody military junta.
Posted by Tim F at 2:18 pm
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Billy said...

Bob's commment made me lol.

Nice article by the way. It's easier saying that here than on that hotbed of lunacy.

19/6/07 9:28 pm

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[...]
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